I recently bought and installed a new motherboard, the ASUS P5G41T-M. But when I boot up the computer, just as the process reaches the windows logo, it crashes and BIOS says the computer restarted due to a power surge. All other electrical appliances are working fine. The BIOS also mentions that a TPM device cannot be detected. Can anyone help with a solution to this? It's really frustrating. My current system is: Motherboard: ASUS P5G41T-M CPU: Q6600 GPU: ATI HD 4850 2 GB DDR3 RAM 550 watt Power Supply.
TPM is thermal power management, and i suspect your PSU is Crap.....Only because you describe it as "550w psu"!! It is 99% certain to be a psu issue. rip it out, go into the garden, dig a big hole, throw it to the bottom, go to the shop, buy some semtex and a detonator, go home, put the semtex and the detonator next to the psu, put yourself next to it for using such a naff psu in the first place, set off the bomb. If you are lucky, the explosion should create enough energy to boot the pc, which you will be able to check if you are quick, when you fly past the window. Alternately, buy a decent psu and try again
Excellent advice, even if a bit... destructive. Any recommendations on a power supply unit then? Preferably from ebuyer.com
